This month, we decided to treat the whole team as Safety Winners after reaching an excellent KPI score during September and ticking over 850 days Incident and Injury free on the project. This just goes to show how well the crews have embraced Shell’s Assist and Assure HSSE culture. To celebrate, Chas fired up the...Read More

DSQ’s HSSE had the opportunity to visit the Shell-QGC warehouse in Chinchilla and it certainly was impressive! This was made possible from a collaborative aspect that is off and running throughout the organisation, a universal quest that is being undertaken, applying an Assist and Assure culture by Shell-QGC.   Assist & Assure is a term...Read More

Electrical Power lines… what’s the big deal? We don’t go near them, or do we? DSQ was approached by Shell QGC to commence marking in on our drawings the height of the SWER (Single Wire Earth Return) lines so that everyone in the construction phase would be aware. From this, it sparked a conversation about...Read More

DSQ has held their second annual Photo Competition. After much deliberation we can finally announce that our 3 winners are: Casey, Kane and Phil. We also gave a Creativity Award to Ian (and Family) for their clever re-enactment shot. It was very hard to choose out of the 95 entries we received so, thank you...Read More

There were three recipients for DSQ’s July Safety Awards – Conrad Ufer, Casey Walsh and Adam Daniec. As shown in the photo, Keith gave the boys recognition for demonstrating excellent teamwork when repairing a collapsed storage box from one of the survey vehicles, ensuring good asset protection. Unfortunately, Casey wasn’t on site for the photo...Read More

DSQ and QGC staff celebrated 800 days Incident & Injury free on the project with a good old fashioned game of Golf. It was a great afternoon with lots of laughs and perfect weather to top it off, especially after some of those 0 degree mornings! As shown above, the prized brown jacket – “The...Read More

DSQ is now recognised as an Energy Star Partner. This means we have reduced our marginal energy consumption by 17.39% over the last 12 months as part of our CCIQ Ecobiz Partnership. This was made possible by changing a few simple habits such as: replacing the halogen downlights with LEDs, installing timers on the water...Read More

Congratulations to Dan Krisanski and the team out at Chinchilla for winning the April/May QGC Goal Zero Hero award for risk normalisation and taking preventative measures. Our Surveyors & Survey Assistants are required to place timber stakes into the ground, setting out works for the construction of well access tracks and well pads. This process...Read More

We would like to thank the MATES in Construction team for providing us with General Awareness Training at both our Warana and Chinchilla offices. MATES IC is focussed on reducing suicide rates in the construction industry by providing workers with tools to be able to recognise when their colleagues are struggling. The statistics speak for...Read More

DSQ were proud to partner with UDIA as a hole sponsor for the annual golf day at Pelican Waters. DSQ Directors Blair Ffitch and Tony Pike were joined by Toby Zaremba and Al Larchin of Formia Project Management as our group for the day. Our admin girls were setup at the 6th hole (Par 3)...Read More